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Subject: Re: Free Software Foundation (was: Re: Mach, the new standard?)
Message-ID: <10495@orchid.waterloo.edu>
Date: Wed, 31-Dec-69 18:59:59 EDT
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Posted: Wed Dec 31 18:59:59 1969
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Reply-To: gamiddleton@orchid.waterloo.edu (Guy Middleton)
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In article <3470@islenet.UUCP> richard@islenet.UUCP (Richard Foulk) writes:
> In article <8520@utzoo.UUCP> henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer) writes:
> > A less charitable view of this is that Stallman couldn't write a small
> > program to save his life.  Unfortunately, this is a common maladay nowadays.
> >
> 
> Leave it to someone who's been using small, out-dated equipment for
> years now to be so publicly unkind.

Henry's attitude may be uncharitable, but his complaints are valid.  On a
Mac-II, hardly an out-dated piece of equipment, and the kind of machine
that emacs should be running on, it took GNU Emacs 60 seconds to start up.
VI takes only 3 seconds.  I use emacs myself, but only on big machines
with fast disks.
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 -Guy Middleton, University of Waterloo Institute for Computer Research
  gamiddleton@math.waterloo.edu, watmath!gamiddleton, gamiddleton@water.bitnet